Hi all,
Web Connection 7.20 has been released. This is a maintenance release with minimal change impact on existing applications, as most in version updates have been. This release adds a few cool new features:
- Web Sockets Support
- Consolidated Administration interface
- A wwProcess::OnRouting() handler
- Support for .NET 5.0 in wwDotnetBridge
- Updated local Web Connection Web Server for .NET 5.0
- JSON parsing Improvements
You can take a look at the very detailed Release Post and the full Web Connection Change log here:
- West Wind Web Connection 7.20 has been released
- Web Connection Change Log
- Web Sockets in Web Connection
Check it out...
+++ Rick ---
Nice! And the web sockets support is very cool.
Ha - it would probably help if I actually enabled the Web Sockets support on the live server 😄
The Web Socket sample now should work.
Web Connection Web Socket Chat Sample
+++ Rick ---
I think the web sockets support is wonderful. Of course you can always build your broker using .NET Core or Node.js but having that inside WWWC framework is probably going to be easier. Do you have a guide or article explaining what is needed to implement this feature in existing VFP web applications?
Also, is there a way you can submit messages from the server (i.e one-way client notifications)?
Thanks Dimitar Hristov
Look at the docs here:
You can send HTTP requests to the server to broadcast to all, groups or users that are connected.
How to send Web Socket requests from the server
+++ Rick ---
We've been trying out the new administration interface. No problems on systems running under the .NET handler but yesterday we tried it on two installations that are using ISAPI. In both cases we get the error:
Can't find or open page administration.wc
We verified that the new DLLs had been installed on that system and that the .wc extension is properly mapped.
Is it possible that the new admin page was only fully implented in WebconnectionModule.DLL and not in WC.DLL?
--stein